Notions by John Kelly Paul Vincent rising to the challenge of

rising to the challenge of the skald’s affirmation: you are the people in the land

In Injury Time

of births and becoming

In an age where blurby superlatives compete on debut book covers

According to Kim

Notions by John Kelly Paul Vincent rising to the challenge ofConstantly inventive and unerringly precise, the poems in John Kellys debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand alone lyric and the longer, apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this books extraordinary brio and style. The breadth of cultural reference is perhaps a given, but Kellys real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision. From the natural world to the troubled north of his